Gottfried Leiber

Gottfried Leiber (born June 18, 1929 ) is a German architect , urban planner and municipal building officer who was deputy head of the city of Karlsruhe 's urban planning office. As a city ​​historian, he is the author of numerous publications on Friedrich Weinbrenner .

Life

Gottfried Leiber studied architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe with Egon Eiermann , Otto Haupt , Otto Ernst Schweizer and Adolf Bayer, among others . After the main diploma examination, he worked in Karl Selg's office , then as a research assistant at his chair for housing construction. He then worked at the Institute for Building History at Arnold Tschira in the same function.

In 1964, Leiber began working for the city of Karlsruhe in the city planning office, where he was responsible for overall urban planning ( land use planning ). From 1976 his field of activity expanded to include land use planning for the Karlsruhe neighborhood association (city of Karlsruhe and ten surrounding communities).

In 1966 Leiber's entry into the list of architects of the state of Baden-Württemberg, in 1967 he passed the state examination with the appointment of government master builder. From 1972 to 1992 Gottfried Leiber was a lecturer at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences . During his term of office, for example, from 1972 to 1975 he participated in the incorporation negotiations of the city of Karlsruhe. From 1976 until his retirement in 1989, Leiber was deputy head of the city planning office, from 1979 as the city's chief building director .

In 1990 Leiber did his doctorate at the Institute for Building History under Wulf Schirmer with a dissertation on the urban development work of Friedrich Weinbrenner. In 2010 he was one of the founding members of the Friedrich Weinbrenner Society and was its Vice President. Gottfried Leiber is also a member of the working group for historical regional studies on the Upper Rhine .

His main research interests are the work of Friedrich Weinbrenner and the early history of Karlsruhe's urban architecture.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Friedrich Weinbrenner's urban development work for Karlsruhe. (= Friedrich Weinbrenner and the Weinbrenner School , Volume II.)
  • Part I: The baroque town planning and the first classicist drafts of Friedrich Weinbrenner. Karlsruhe 1996, ISBN 3-7650-9041-7 .
  • Part II: The urban development and the urban expansion plans 1801–1826. Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-8053-2903-2 .

Contributions

• Friedrich Weinbrenner's late drafts for enlarging the city of Karlsruhe. In: Rainer Hanauer et al. (Ed.): Festschrift for Werner Böser's 60th birthday (= Karlsruhe Geoscientific Writings. Series A, Volume 2, and Series B, Volume 2). Karlsruhe 1986, ISBN 3-89063-001-4 , pp. 315-363.
• From the hunting seat to the city complex. The urban development of Karlsruhe up to the end of the 18th century. In: Badisches Landesmuseum (Ed.): Clear and full of light like a rule. Modern planning cities from the 16th to the 18th century. Karlsruhe 1990, ISBN 3-7650-9026-3 , pp. 297-312.
• Urban development in Karlsruhe. From the foundation to the end of the Weinbrenner era. In: Karlsruhe contributions. No. 6 (1991), ISBN 3-7650-0406-5 , pp. 23-47.
• Developed according to a regular plan drawn up beforehand. The Karlsruhe city plan and its geometrical basis. In: Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine ( ISSN  0044-2607 ), Volume 154 (NF 115), pp. 217-239.
• Hidden geometry. The Karlsruhe fan layout. In: look into history. Karlsruhe contributions to the history of the city. Volume 4, No. 77 (2009), ISBN 978-3-88190-571-8 , pp. 194-197 ( online ).
• Friedrich Weinbrenner and the Church of St. Stephan in Karlsruhe. In: Badische Heimat ( ISSN  0930-7001 ), issue 2/2008, pp. 204-216.
• Margrave Carl Wilhelm and his unusual chamber procurator. In: Badische Heimat. Issue 4/2010, pp. 871-889.
• Carl Friedrich and Friedrich Weinbrenner's plans. In: Badische Heimat. Issue 2/2011, pp. 221-228.
• To the origin of the city name. The early Karlsruhe and the calm. In: A look into the history, Karlsruhe contributions to the history of the city. No. 96 (of September 21, 2012), p. 3 ( online ).
• The Karlsruhe fan - a hidden geometry. In: Atlas Karlsruhe, 300 years of city history in maps and pictures. Cologne 2014 ( ISBN 978-3-95451-413-7 ).
• The pyramid in Karlsruhe. In: Karlsruhe fanned out (= series of publications of the Badische Heimat. Vol. 11). Freiburg im Breisgau 2015 ( ISBN 978-3-7930-5105-3 ).
• Friedrich Weinbrenner's Via Triumphalis. In: Friedrich Weinbrenner 1766–1826. Architecture and urban planning of classicism. Exhibition catalog. Petersberg 2015 ( ISBN 3-7319-0224-9 ), pp. 107-117.
• The project of a Ludwig Canal . In: Blick in die Geschichte, Karlsruher urban historical contributions , No. 105 (from December 12, 2014) p. 3. f. ( online )
• Friedrich Weinbrenner and the Evangelical Church in Karlsruhe . In: Badische Heimat Heft 2/2016, pp. 225–237.
• Friedrich Weinbrenner and the colors . In: Blick in die Geschichte, Karlsruher urban historical contributions , No. 113 (from December 16, 2016) p. 3 f. ( online ).
• The so-called Tulla plan to enlarge the city of Karlsruhe . In: The building researcher Arnold Tschira (1910–1969), commemorative publication of his students on the 100th birthday , Karlsruhe 2017, pp. 55–66, ISBN 978-3-7315-0656-0 . Materials on Building Research and Building History, Vol. 23, KIT Scientific Publishing.
• The forgotten fountain , in: Blick in die Geschichte, Karlsruher Stadthistorische Contributions No. 125 (from December 6, 2019), Karlsruher Blickpunkte, p. 4
• Karlsruhe's path from the Jagdstern to the big city , in: Stadt und Garten, Oberrheinische Studien Vol. 40 (Eds. Hartmut Troll / Konrad Krimm), Ostfildern 2019, pp. 15 - 50. ISBN 978- 3- 7995-7840-0.

Web links

• Publications by Gottfried Leiber in the Baden-Württemberg State Bibliography